• antonim@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Eh, both are proper spelling, I don’t think any Russian manual said it’s mandatory. The ë is used mainly in dictionaries, Russian schoolbooks, etc. where ambiguity should be minimal.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s also used by people who respect the language and don’t want to see it gradually turn into a shitshow like English where it’s spelled ‘Manchester’, pronounced ‘Liverpool’.

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        3 hours ago

        When was the last time you read a book which used ë regularly (as in, not just in cases as distinguishing все-всё)?

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          31 minutes ago

          For better or worse, I’ve been reading almost exclusively in English for years, but also listening to English audiobooks wherein I learned a lot of new things about words that I’ve seen before. That’s precisely why I’ve become more entrenched in my belief that ‘ё’ shouldn’t be optional. And use it myself always.

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      11 hours ago

      Fair enough. I tend to use it because it just reduces scanning ambiguity when reading text quickly.